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Lulu - I know what you mean about other people's negative comments putting you off. I think it depends on who is saying it though. Maybe try to read it without expectations?
I have started reading "The Help". I'm up to chapter 5 & I'm hooked. Very well written, I found myself thinking in a southern us accent :p
I think I can safely say I have absolutely NO expectations :lol:
I keep forgetting about The Help each time I download a new book. I loved the movie and I'm sure the book is a million times better - as they almost always are!
I have a couple of books on the go (depending on my mood)....
Kathy Reichs Flash & Bones and The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks. I'm finding the Nicholas Sparks one hard to get into ....
If you like the idea of 50 shades, I have been recommended a book called Bared to You by Sylvia Day. It's similar in context, the writing is supposed to heaps better!
I downloaded a sample of fifty shades and it didn't do much for me do I haven't bothered purchasing it. Just finished gravity by Tess Gerritsen for the second time and now to have a look through the pile of books mum left the other day....
Have got Absolute Power by David Baldacci waiting for me next on my ipad. Ooooh I should definitely get The Help too, thanks!
LuluHB have a go at fifty shades just to satisfy your curiosity! I read the first third, hated it and then struggled to finish because I thought it might get better. It didn't for me. But lots of people say the second and third books are better.
That's hilarious lovely. Reminds me of a line in a Billy Crystal movie- "here, try this and tell me if it tastes bad" Your variation is hey read this book. Its crap but read it!! ;-):
I hope you like the Baldacci book. I've read a few of his now and they're not earth shattering but usually a good read - I really enjoyed his latest one
i have just finished reading two good books by Kate Morton. The Shifiting Fog (also published as the House at the Riverton) and The Forgotten Garden. Both were good - basically about modern day people remembering or researching the past set in great houses in England (kinda like Downton Abbey).
Now I'm onto a PD James book called Death Comes to Pemberley - a "sequel" to Pride and Prejudice.
Haha Lulu! I just thought u should give it a go to satisfy your curiousity. But yeah I'm pretty much saying to read it even though it's crap! Will let u know on the baldacci book.
I just finished The Help. I loved it. I couldn't put it down. I didn't want to put it down :p
I have now started Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings. So far finding it a bit hard to get into. It's early days though - only up to chapter 2!
Is "The Shifting Fog" worth reading Bloom? I saw that a few years ago & considered it but bought something else instead. Can you tell me a little more about it (without giving toomuch away :))
Anyone even vaguely into running should read Born to run! Fantastic book- I couldn't put it down and read it in 2 days! Now reading something about 7 sisters- cant remember the name, slowish but good!
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
LOVED IT
I'm working through Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series - have most of them uploaded to the kindle in one file so slowly working through those.
Sci-fi with a bit of fantasy tossed in.
I'm re-reading the Hunger Games series, almost finished Mockingjay again :) I'm trying to decide what to read next...
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About to start Bared to You. Finished Gina Rinehart, what a fascinating woman she is. She is now the richest person (not just woman) in the world. An amazing achievement even if you don't like her.
I really enjoyed the hunger games :)
I gave up on Fifty Shades, and finished Tina Fey's Bossypants quite quickly - it was a hoot and a half! There were bits to do with parenting that I sympathised with (as an overworked career woman) and other bits (to do with bith, breastfeeding, etc) where I felt sad for her, because I don't know whether she didn't know about some different options, or didn't have much support, or she has regrets and is joking about it from a place or pain, or she is serious about her position (and I just disagree with her). If she just has a different opinion from me, that's totally fine - that does happen ;) And if she's disagreeing after knowing her options and making a decision, that's totally fine. But if it's because she didn't have support, or didn't know other options were out there, then that's sad ... But that was a very small part of the book, and I mostly found it very funny.
I am currently reading "When My Husband Does the Dishes" which is also quite funny, but I'm relating to it less so far.
About to embark on the next book in the *I Am Number Four* series....
*The Rise of Nine*... fingers crossed it's awesome!
I'm about half way through Fifty Shades. All I can say is ho hum . . .
Definitely going to have to search for something else to read because its boring me to tears
I have just finished "The Stone Angel" by Katherine Scholes. I picked it up at a super cheap sale over Christmas and recently got to it. I have to say, it's one of the best books I've read in ages. I highly recommend it.
Now I'm on to "House Rules" by Jodie Piccoult.
Just seen in all the junk mail this morning that there is a new Reacher novel due out next week so that will be my next read given I'm about 3 minutes away from giving up on 50 Shades. Looking forward to reading it, but must confess to being a little concerned at how quickly Childs is turning them out these days. Can't help but think he's going for nothing but the almight dollar (as if the casting of Tom Cruise in his movie wasn't enough of an indication of that!) and the quality might start to slip even more.
Just finished Absolute Power by David Baldacci, I enjoyed it. Not earth shattering great but a good read!
My sister has lent me Sweet Poison. Have been wanting to read it for a while. First I better eat another Tim Tam :p
Started Bared to you by Sylvia Day. 100 times better written than Fifty Shades. Story line similar.
I am just about to finish When in Rome by Nicky Pellegrino. A beautiful story about a the daughter of an Italian prostitute who goes to work with her idol Mario Lanza, her sister wants to sing in his new movie.
I have just loaded my Kobo with new Marian Keyes - The Mystery of Mercy Close and Monica McInerney - House of Memories :D
I just finished the Marian Keyes, I love her books about the Walsh family :) I'll have to download the other you mentioned.:
I'm halfway through the new Melina Marchetta - Quintana of Charyn, the third book in her Lumatre Chronicle, seriously wonderful books!
War Brides by Helen Bryan. About 5 young women in WWII England. It started off very promising and I really enjoyed it. I felt the ending was a bit rushed though. The characters were very well developed and I felt like I knew them all.
A while ago I finished book 5 of Game of Thrones and I'm devastated :-( I just don't know what to read next, nothing's grabbing me like that did.
I read The Great Gatsby and decided that if that is America's best ever book they surely don't have very good writers over there. What's so fantastic about it? And why can't a proper author write could have instead of could of? I also don't understand why they get so het up about people making it into a movie. Seems to me that'd it'd be easy to turn into a movie and I reckon I'd like it better.
Now reading Les Miserables. So far I think it's weird. Very short chapters that all seem to start with "now we must tell you all about this characteristic of the Bishop".
Did you also read the mini book she put out on the description of the Walsh family members? I am considering downloading that as well.:
I love Monica McInerney, she is Australian born living in Ireland so they mostly have an Irish connection. Her first three books were part of a trilogy. Excellent reads.
I'm reading Marian's "Under the Duvet" ... I read "Further Under the Duvet" ages ago, not realising there was an earlier one!
I got too excited waiting for her new one to arrive, so I grabbed UTD as an appetiser, but now clearly must finish it before I launch into The Mystery of Mercy Close ...
What's the mini book called? I've not heard of it.
Or that other author ...
Hmmm.
Mammy Walsh's A-Z of the Walsh Family: An Ebook Short. It's only $2.99 on my Kobo.:
ah. No e-reader here. :)
Kaytee, you're going to have to apologise for your Gatsby slurs :o ;)
It's not the best US book, but it's one of them :)
It's already a movie (they are doing a remake). Gatsby is played by Robert Redford.
PN - I love my e-reader, my DH got if for me one year for my birthday. It is fantastic on the train. I often have to stand and can hold this one handed in tight spots :lol:
My mother has worked as an English teacher, a Librarian, a Journalist and an Editor.
DH and I, together with my mother, sister, MIL and BIL are all published writers in various formats.
DH and I have eleven (yes, eleven) bookshelves full of books.
There is no way on God's great earth that I'm going to be able to reconcile with an e-reader anytime soon.
I understand why people love them (particularly on days when I have two or three books in my bag) but I'm not emotionally ready for such a catastrophic change ...
Lol N2L, I was wondering if there'd be a Gatsby fan in here! It's not that I thought it was a bad book (aside from could of), I just didn't get why it was so fantastic. I didn't particularly love any of the characters. I dunno, maybe it was just too different from what I was reading before.
Just read The Art of Racing in the Rain for book club. Loved it, something really different. I even cried at the end and I never cry at books. Probably the preggo hormones!!
Just finished up Genesis by Bernard Beckett which I enjoyed.
Now reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas
Started on the deverry series by Katherine Kerr. I'm up to book 3 already and loving it. Fantasy series medieval war style with magic as they usually are but with the twist of being set over several centuries, with the same souls being reincarnated into new characters. It was recommended in the first thread, but I'll recommend it again, lol!
The Big Smoke by Cally Jackson. A kind of coming of age novel. Not what I normally read but I'm loving it. It's really fast paced and a real page turner. It's set in Brisbane so I know a lot of the places.
I feel your pain. My whole career has been in the book trade. My last job would shut up shop for three weeks over Christmas and when we went back in, you could smell the books. Aaaahhhh. I swore black and blue that I would never buy an e-reader.:
But I now own a Kobo and have downloaded my first book. And it's freaking awesome.
Convenient. No more trawling through bookshops with limited stock trying to find what I wanted or trying to remember.
Storage. My whole life is pretty much in boxes for the next three years. I've moved a whole house into two bedrooms and a bathroom and do not have any room for books right now.
Holidays. I can take the Kobo in the caravan, much easier than trying to figure out how many books I'll churn through on a trip.
I'll still buy books to have and hold. But only to be adding to my precious ones. Instead of buying a book that ends up being rubbish but absolutely cannot throw it away and stick it on an overcrowded shelf for eternity.
I finally read The Hunger Games. Amazing. Reading The Help right now and loving it.
Has anyone read The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons? I recall that it's part of a trilogy and am wondering if this is the first book. Thinking of reading this next.
I love that trilogy. Yes, TBH is first. Then The Bridge to Holy Cross is next, and it's the next part of the story, but also has some flashbacks from a different perspective. Then The Summer Garden is the next part of the story. There's also Tatiana's Table, which has some vignettes about the characters, and a bunch of recipes. :):
I am reading Bloodlines at the moment - young adult fiction about an alchemist. Tangent series to Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead).